The Wrap: ASEAN for ASEAN – new joint campaign to promote intra-regional travel
In the news: ASEAN for ASEAN campaign, Amadeus' new partnership with AccesRail, trending destinations for Singapore travellers, Thailand hotels’ top booking sites ASEAN for ASEAN: new joint campaign to promote intra-regional travel It’s all for one and one for all as the 10 member countries of A [...]
TravelersBox, armed with $10m new funding, will focus on Asia
TravelersBox, claiming to be the first and only solution allowing travelers to convert leftover foreign currency into usable digital currency, has raised $10 million in Series A funding.The round was led by Arbor Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm focused on the intersection of financial [...]
The Millennial Traveller: Matching resolutions with recommendations could be best way to avoid family fights
In an attempt to make New Year’s resolutions less of a burden on our moral conscience, Booking.com (in partnership with Weiden+Kennedy) has unveiled a ‘Resolution Translator’ as part of a Best 2016 Ever campaign (as opposed to the other 2016, which isn’t looking as great) to revive a sense o [...]
Hotel wonderland as distribution is disrupted and ALICE comes out to play
A long, long time ago in a galaxy far away, I dreamt of being a hotelier. In fact, I recall asking a general manager if he would switch places with me for a day just so I would understand what it was like to walk around with hands behind my back and look at floors to see if there was litter or occas [...]
WIT and Hotel ICON team up for WIT Hospitality
In line with Web In Travel’s (WIT) mantra of innovation and nurturing new talent, the first WIT Hospitality in Hong Kong on March 22, 2016 will be held in partnership with Hotel ICON, the teaching and research hotel built for the School of Hotel and Tourism Management by the Hong Kong Polytechnic [...]
Chinese travellers spent US$229b in retail, says GfK study
The number of Chinese outbound travellers topped 109 million in 2015, and they spent a total of US$229 billion in retail.The statistics, revealed by Nuremberg-based market research institute GfK in its latest analysis of the Chinese market, billed this development “a key milestone in China’s out [...]
5 ways Taiwan tourism will change
This is a guest blog by Morris Sim, CEO & co-founder of Circos Brand Karma.Taiwan’s historic 2016 elections brought in a new administration that will change Taiwan. Here are my predictions on how the Tsai administration’s focus will change Taiwan tourism for the better.Foreign travelers will [...]
Technology lets tourists ‘go local’ with micromoments
This is a guest blog by Bronwyn White, co-founder of MyTravelResearch.com, a market research and marketing firm specialising in the travel, tourism, and aviation industries.I was delighted a few weeks ago when I saw that Airbnb had created a new product off the back of Google market research around [...]
Northstar Travel Media rebrands as Northstar Travel Group
Northstar Travel Media, owner of WIT, has been rebranded Northstar Travel Group, a move that chairman and CEO, Tom Kemp, said highlighted the transformation of Northstar into the leading B2B information, business intelligence, commerce and events platform serving the travel and meetings industries.� [...]
Happy 2016: What was over-hyped and what’s coming, Part 3
With the dawn of a new year, we ask a few of our industry leaders for what they felt was most over-hyped in the year that was, their prediction for 2016 and for good measure, we asked them their one wish for WIT. Tao Tao, CMO, GetYourGuide1. Most over-hyped trend of 2015 Apps. Acquiring customers on [...]
